[hn_user2]

Meta-Meta question: Why is "actually worrisome" part of "more capable"?

If worrisome is because of job prospects for an existing career, my advice is to embrace new tech, not fear it. Just keeping up with things even if you don't use it right away is usually enough to stay relevant. Things don't really evolve that quickly, and so as long as you don't resist change completely things usually work out.

Heck even if you hate change, and don't want to change at all, there will be plenty of old legacy companies with the old fashioned manual reports needing a person in a chair to type out the SQL to make them. Just like there are still (good paying) jobs for those COBOL experts today.

[supernova87a]

Right, well I just use it as a phrase, to shorthand mean, "wow, really pay attention to as changing how we work and behave".